If you haven’t read John K. Toole’s novel, for which this post is named, I herby recommend it.   It’s not about the dweebs who now inhabit o...

I believe it is fair and accurate to say that our “kids” have completed the journey through adolescence, and both have become (in my humble,...

I was not exactly stunned and shocked to learn that the so-called “Supercommittee” reported failure to achieve anything, and isn’t even both...

This is not the first time I’ve mentioned this topic.   I predicted back when NBC bought the Weather Channel they’d ruin it, and as far as I...

Getting through the coverage of Saturday’s Penn State – Nebraska game was difficult enough for a cynical old bastard like me, but Sunday mor...

I posted the picture above on Facebook today in honor of Veterans Day.   It’s my dad’s brother, Lt. John Thomas Morrissey, and the picture w...

First of all, the state should not put up a Christmas tree in the center of the Capital Rotunda.   Like it or not, agree or disagree, it is ...